Editing January 6 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[1256]] &ndash; [[Gertrude the Great]], [[German mystic]] (d. 1302)<ref>{{cite book|author=Rosemary Guiley|title=The Encyclopedia of Saints|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ABkgU0GOBbcC&pg=PA132|year=2001|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-3026-2|pages=132}}</ref>
*[[1367]] &ndash; [[Richard II of England]] (d. 1400)<ref>{{cite book|title=Mnemonika: Or, Chronological Tablets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVoQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA249|year=1812|publisher=E. J. Coale|pages=249–}}</ref>
*[[1384]] &ndash; [[Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent]] (d. 1408)<ref>{{cite book|author1=American Historical Company, New York|author2=Mabel Johnson|title=Johnson, Stedman, and allied families: a genealogical study with biographical notes|url=https://archive.org/details/johnsonstedmanal00amer|url-access=registration|year=1962}}</ref>
*[[1412]] &ndash; [[Joan of Arc]], French martyr and saint (d. 1431)<ref>{{cite book|author=Gail Patterson|title=Joan of Arc: Historical Overview and Bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0hYWzuecyHMC&pg=PA177|year=2002|publisher=Nova Publishers|isbn=978-1-59033-503-1|pages=177}}</ref>
*[[1486]] &ndash; [[Martin Agricola]], German composer and theorist (d. 1556)<ref name="Wier1938">{{cite book|author=Albert Ernest Wier|title=The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nx8KAQAAMAAJ|year=1938|publisher=Macmillan}}</ref>
*[[1488]] &ndash; [[Helius Eobanus Hessus]], German poet (d. 1540)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Peter G. Bietenholz|author2=Thomas Brian Deutscher|title=Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hruQ386SfFcC&pg=PA434|year=2003|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8577-1|pages=434}}</ref>
*[[1493]] &ndash; [[Olaus Petri]], Swedish clergyman (d. 1552)<ref>{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Philpot|title=Old testament apocryphal images in European art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VShGAQAAIAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis|isbn=978-91-7346-666-0}}</ref>
*[[1500]] &ndash; [[John of Ávila]], Spanish mystic and saint (d. 1569)<ref>{{cite book|author=Raphaël Louis Oechslin|title=Louis of Granada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWMfAAAAMAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Herder}}</ref>
*[[1525]] &ndash; [[Caspar Peucer]], German physician and scholar (d. 1602)<ref>{{cite book|author=Henri Harrisse|title=Bibliotheca Americana vetustissima: a description of works relating to America published between the years 1492 and 1551. Additions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5gZTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA173|year=1872|publisher=Philes|pages=173}}</ref>
*[[1538]] &ndash; [[Jane Dormer]], [[Duchess of Feria]] (d. 1612)<ref>{{cite book|author=Kathy Lynn Emerson|title=Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth Century England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gewhAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Whitston Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-87875-246-1|page=72}}</ref>
*[[1561]] &ndash; [[Thomas Fincke]], Danish mathematician and physicist (d. 1656)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://runeberg.org/dbl/5/0152.html|title=Fincke, Thomas, 1561-1656|publisher=Dansk biografisk Lexikon|access-date=August 1, 2019|archive-date=August 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813194535/http://runeberg.org/dbl/5/0152.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1587]] &ndash; [[Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares]] (d. 1645)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Keith Busby|author2=Terry Nixon|title=Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q6jh2mEUGYwC&pg=PA156|year=1993|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-5183-613-9|pages=156}}</ref>
*[[1595]] &ndash; [[Claude Favre de Vaugelas]], French educator and courtier (d. 1650)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Vaugelas, Claude Favre, Seigneur de |volume=27 |pages=954–955 |quote=...was born at Meximieu, department of Ain, on the 6th of January 1595}}</ref>